On Tuesday, 1^st of July 2008, the demo-project on “Triangle near the Solana park” was inaugurated during a ceremony organised by municipality of Mitrovica and UN-HABITAT.

This project was co-financed by the municipality and UN-HABITAT’s Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme in Kosovo. The Mayor of Mitrovica municipality, Mr. Bajram Rexhepi and the UN-HABITAT’s head of office, Mr. Garth Seneque were present in the inauguration ceremony.

 “This place had a bad view, and now this has been changed for good, while making easer the car traffic and movement of pedestrians”, said Mr. Rexhepi during the ceremony. On the other hand, Mr. Seneque, expressed his readiness to support this municipality on regulation of green areas while emphasising that in the near future there will be a Memorandum of Understanding signed between UN-HABITAT and Mitrovica municipality on further cooperation within the coming programme of UN-HABITAT.     

The new intersection design seeks to meet the following objectives: confirm this location as a main entry/exit point of the city centre and as a connection with Solana park; improve traffic safety for motorized and non-motorized traffic through better organization of traffic flows; slower car traffic at critical points and create coherent, large and secured footpaths, and implement a formal minibus terminal.

The financial value of the project is 29.800 Euros, where the amount of the 16.530 Euros was funded by UN-HABITAT, while the amount of 13.270 Euros was financed by Municipality of Mitrovica . Execution of the construction works has started end of May 2008, performed by the company BALLKAN PROJEKT from Prishtinë/ Pristina.